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James Welling is an American postmodern artist and photographer best known for his photographs of everyday materials such as phyllo dough and aluminum foil.

James Welling was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1951. He grew up in nearby Simsbury where, in 1963, he began to study art with Julie Post. In 1965 he took drawing classes at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford and began to work independently in watercolor. Welling was deeply influenced by the work of Charles Burchfield, Edward Hopper and most importantly by Andrew Wyeth. From 1969 to 1971 Welling attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he studied with Gandy Brodie, John Stevenson, Connie Fox and Robert Tharsing. In the fall of 1970, he began a series of gray monochrome paintings, as well as a group of outdoor site-specific sculptures influenced by Post-Minimalism. At this time he also made his first black-and-white photographs, night exposures of Pittsburgh. In 1971 Welling transferred to the recently formed California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. At CalArts, he worked primarily in video and studied with Wolfgang Stoerchle and John Baldessari. Baldessari was an important influence, and from 1973 to 1974 Welling was his teaching assistant. After graduation (M.F.A. 1974), Welling began to write reviews for Artweek. He continued to work in video and in 1975 “Ashes” was included in the Southland Video Anthology at the Long Beach Museum of Art.

Although he never formally studied photography, Welling set up a darkroom in 1976 and began learning about printing and developing with a series of architectural photographs of Los Angeles, CA. He started his early series Diary/Landscape in 1977, photographs of Connecticut landscapes paired with parts of his great-great-grandparents’ diaries from 1840.

Welling has experimented with a range of photographic techniques, including gelatin silver prints, photograms, Polaroids, and digital prints. In 1978, Welling moved to New York, NY, and during the 1980s, he worked on several series of abstract photographs, which depict materials such as drapery, aluminum foil, and ink infused gelatin. After he moved to Los Angeles, Welling produced photograms such as his series called Torsos 2005/2008, which was shown at the Whitney Biennial, in New York, in 2008.

From 2006 to 2009, Welling photographed Philip Johnson’s Glass House in Connecticut using filters of various colors. He has also worked with the digital alteration techniques using Maya and Photoshop, evident in the series War (2005) and Quadrilaterals (2005). In 1985, Welling received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His work is currently held in several collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He is represented by the David Zwirner Gallery in New York.